CO·69 Ossuccio

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Object
Classification:	bowl
Archaeological Type:	patera
Material:	pottery
Size:	diam. 17 cm, height 4.5 cm
Condition:	unknown
Archaeological culture:	Golasecca III A 2
Date:	second half of 5th c. BC
Site:	Ossuccio (Como, Lombardia, Italy)
Archaeological context:	tomb
Coordinates (approx.):	45° 58' 17.54" N, 9° 10' 48.62" E
Find date:	1907
Current location:	Museo Archeologico ‟Paolo Giovio” (Como)
Inventory no.:	E 17965
Inscription:	CO·69 (k r?op)
Alternative sigla:	Whatmough 1933 (PID): 279 Solinas 1995: 64 Morandi 2004: 145
Sources:	Morandi 2004: 618 f. no. 145

Images

Drawing of CO·69 Ossuccio with inscription CO·69 from Bertolone 1957

Commentary

Images in Giussani 1917-8: 8 (photo), Bertolone 1957: tav. 38.1 (drawing), De Marinis 1981: tav. 49.2.

Red-varnished patera with three stamped rosettes on the inside (Bertolone 1957: 64), found in 1907 covering a bronze vessel in one of two cremation graves in the course of digs in the garden of the osteria Bella Vista, ca. 15 m to the right of the campanile of the church Sant'Agata (PID: 97, no. 279, Morandi, and see the entry in the RAPTOR map (CO.Ossuc.1)). The mixed-up inventories of the graves were tentatively separated by De Marinis 1981: 118, no. 2, who dated the hypothetical ensemble of grave 1, including the inscribed patera, to Golasecca III A2. See also Giussani 1917-8: 3–14.

Bibliography

Bertolone 1957	Mario Bertolone, "Ancora sulla ceramica del Golasecca III A", Sibrium 3 (1956–1957), 55–71.
De Marinis 1981	Raffaele De Marinis, "Il periodo Golasecca III A in Lombardia", Studi Archeologici 1 (1981), 41–299.